A week ago, in The New York Times:
In a July meeting, Chinese officials asked their American counterparts detailed questions about the health care legislation making its way through Congress. The president’s budget director, Peter R. Orszag, answered most of their questions. But the Chinese were not particularly interested in [...]
Tony Woodlief, as he does so often, speaks for me:
I suppose Christ is no more mine to give than He is yours, or even His own. Instead He watches over all creation, ignored by the urbane and the overly educated, espied by the weeping toddler, making fools of kings [...]
Someone will have to help me with how anybody can be both dangerous and boring but... whatever:
Based on the back and forth between the Hollywood talking heads in the piece, clearly the only person more hated than Sarah Palin is Martha Stewart.
H/T to the folks at NewsBusters.
Crossposted(*).
[...]Charles Krauthammer leads the analysis:
So why is Attorney General Eric Holder doing this? Ostensibly, to demonstrate to the world the superiority of our system where the rule of law and the fair trial reign.
Really? What happens if KSM (and his co-defendants) "do not get convicted," asked Senate Judiciary [...]
Posted by guest blogger Fr. D.
Sunday Next Before Advent
Jeremiah 23:5–8
St. John 6:5–14
+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
It is now late in the natural year, and today is the last Sunday of the sacred year, the Sunday next before Advent. [...]
Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Tobin has banned Rep. Patrick Kennedy from receiving Communion, the central sacrament of the church, in Rhode Island because of the congressman's support for abortion rights, Kennedy said in a newspaper interview published' [...]
by guest blogger, BroKen.
Teaching children at home has had amazing results for centuries. Here is a short list of some home schooled students; Leonardo da Vinci, Abraham Lincoln, Mozart, Edison. Still today, in spite of the rapid growth of homeschooling, there are some people who think we who homeschool our children are a little [...]
You won't be seeing this much in the MSM:
It’s a story that broke first in Europe, but is making its way here. (I heard about it on NewsFifty, which is constantly adding links.) Here’s the story, briefly: Hadley GRU is one of the major climate change advocacy organizations. ' [...]
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
Jesse Jackson: 'You can't vote against healthcare and call yourself a black man'. “We even have blacks voting against the healthcare bill from Alabama,” Jackson said at a reception Wednesday night. “You can’t vote against healthcare and call yourself' [...]
I believe the poll referenced is this one mentioned by the AP:
Americans seem to be cooling toward global warming. Just 57 percent think there is solid evidence the world is getting warmer, down 20 points in just three years, a new poll says. And the [...]
Morgan brings us the laugh of the day:
Tandem Writing Assignment
The following is a true story received from an English professor.
You know that book “Men are from Mars, Women from Venus”? Well, here’s a prime example of that. This assignment was actually turned in by two of my English students: [...]
This goes beyond the Palin:
Turns out that the young lady being accosted by MSNBC's Nora O'Donnell is 17 (which would've made her 16 during the Presidential election), an important factoid given this bit of information passed along by Newsbusters:
... after O'Donnell began catching heat for her stunt, she went back on' [...]
Yesterday, I linked to this piece published at The Atlantic and more particularly to Dr. Bob's well thought out rebuffing of the ludicrous claim that Christianity is responsible for our current economic climate.
A key excerpt from the good Doctor follows:
Seriously, there’s really not much more to the “evidence” in [...]
Jobs created in non-existent Congressional districts are merely a "side issue":
President Obama brushed off criticism over his administration's inaccurate reporting on job creation Wednesday, telling Fox News the accounting is an "inexact science" and that any errors are a "side issue" when compared with the goal of turning the economy [...]
I think the Attorney General might've preferred waterboarding:
' [...]I kid you not:
Let the confusion end: The Atlantic has hit the news stands with a breaking revelation: It’s the Christians! To wit: Did Christianity Cause the Crash?
… recently, critics have begun to argue that the prosperity gospel, echoed in churches across the country, [...]
And you know it's true:
Greeting the Japanese emperor at Tokyo’s Imperial Palace last weekend, President Barack Obama bowed so low that he was looking straight at the stone floor. The next day, Obama shook hands with the prime minister of repressive Myanmar during a group meeting. The day after [...]
I've also heard it called "defriend" and understand there are families, self-described Christian families no less, that have "defriended" their blood relatives. No lie.
Reuters brings us the poop... and I think poop is an appropriate word:
"Unfriend" has been named the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary,' [...]
Around lunch-time yesterday, I began to feel some serious discomfort in my calf. A charley-horse type deep stabbing that was surprisingly and particularly sharp as I stood up. Oddly enough, my leg was tingling from the knee downward and as I checked things out, I noticed that the area was [...]
... by creating and/or saving hundreds of jobs in non-existent Congressional districts.
I kid you not:
In Arizona's 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the Web site set up by the Obama [...]
Posted by guest blogger Fr. D.
Trinity 23
Philippian 3:17–21
St. Matthew 22:15–22
+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Today is the last Sunday this year in the sequence of Sundays measured as “Sundays after Trinity,” next Sunday being the Sunday Next Before Advent, [...]
Dr. Sanity provides the new lyrics:
THE OBAMA PC CLOWN CORPS HYMN
(sung to the tune of the "Marine Corps Hymn")
From the Halls of Academia
To the Shores of Hope and Change;
We wont't fight our country's battles
Cause war is so deranged;
But we'll fight for social justice
And to spread the wealth around;
We are proud [...]
Mark Steyn on the Fort Hood shootings:
Major Hasan was entirely upfront about who he was. He put it on his business card: “SOA.” As in “Soldier of Allah” — which seems a tad ungrateful to the American taxpayers who ponied up half a million bucks or thereabouts in elite medical-school [...]
And to conclude anything else would be to engage in Islamophobia:
Police arrested 22-year-old Abdul Walid Hamid of Hayward on the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 4, after he reportedly tore a crucifix from a person's neck and scared others at Stoneridge Shopping Center.
Hamid, an employee at a mall kiosk near [...]
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
As the saying goes, "A picture is worth a 1000 words." And if that adage holds true? Then Obama is a fellow who is very much into the image that he wishes to project of America as a weak and [...]
That from Mark Hyman at The American Spectator and he makes a most compelling case:
Barack Obama despises America.
When people who voted for Obama in 2008 -- including registered Democrats -- start speaking in normal conversational voices at dinner parties, neighborhood gatherings and PTA meetings that the over-inflated ego [...]
GatewayPundit's got the must read of the day:
Obama tripled the national deficit his first year in office and he’s off to a record-setting start in fiscal year 2010.
Despite the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina, the Clinton Recession he inherited, and the 9-11 attacks, [...]
I know I do.
Let's let The Anchoress explain, as only she can:
In our church, the number of villains has been relatively small, but the relative hurt is incalculable, affecting untold millions in mind, body and spirit. Where there is great good, there is also [...]
Posted here and at The Borg Conspiracy, by guest blogger Locutisprime.
9/11 suspects to be tried in New York
It has been said that doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome, is a sign of insanity. Either that or [...]
Hmm... does the Prez know about this?
Federal prosecutors took steps Thursday to seize four U.S. mosques and a Fifth Avenue skyscraper owned by a nonprofit Muslim organization long suspected of being secretly controlled by the Iranian government.
In what could prove to be one of the biggest counterterrorism seizures in [...]
... and sadly, our troops will pay the price:
President Barack Obama does not plan to accept any of the Afghanistan war options presented by his national security team, pushing instead for revisions to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, a senior [...]
I'm no fashion king. Ask my wife. She critiques what I wear all the time and I can't tell you how many times she's stopped me with these words: "Ain't no way in heck that you're wearing that".
Methinks someone ought to have stopped the First Lady. But again, [...]
We've all heard the meme... so succinctly expressed by Pamela Taylor at The Washington Post:
As we all struggle to make sense of the terrible events at Fort Hood, it is all too easy to blame a particular religion or a particular ethnic background. No doubt, certain pundits will have' [...]
On this Veterans Day, I give thanks for the service of those in my family (my Dad, my youngest brother Mike, my brother-in-law Tim, my Uncle Ed, Uncle Les and to those who've passed, my Uncle Clarence and cousin Rick) and to all who've served or continue to do so.
With [...]
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
[...]By guest blogger, BroKen
Last week I took my family to The Moving Wall. That’s the half-scale replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. The name “Moving Wall” plays on the word “moving”. Yes, it is mobile so it can travel from town to town. But it also evokes the [...]
Our Commander-in-Chief, he who leads our armed forces in the world wide war against terrorism (though no longer called that by this Administration and in a second you'll understand why that might be), has beyond doubt been apprised of the following facts as to the Fort Hood shooter:
his ties to a radical' [...]Reverend Sensing reports on the aftermath of the Fort Hood shootings and the Muslims being victimized by upset Americans:
US Army Chieff of Staff, Gen. George Casey, appeared on ABC’s “This Week” with host George Stephanopoulos.
Casey, when asked about the role Hasan’s Muslim faith may have played in [...]Via Matteo:
Made all the more poignant by her focus, in the aftermath of Fort Hood, while in the United Arab Emirates:
The killing of 13 people by a Muslim psychiatrist at an American army base must not lead to the victimisation of Muslim Americans, the [...]
Posted by guest blogger Reluctant Scribe.
I was touched, and somewhat distressed, to read about a dear friend's recent conversation with her mother about faith. Her mother is in her eighties, knows that she's near the end, and that, despite her good health, death can find her any minute. This distresses [...]
Via The Blotter:
U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News.
Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan tried to make contact with people [...]
Those words are from The Anchoress, as she helps herself and her readers cope not just with all that has taken place of late but what might take place in the near future. It's a must read, one that should be read in its entirety, but I want to steal [...]
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
Petition Calls for NFL Running Back to Be Sacked After Gay Slurs
In today's NFL, there isn't much that seems to phase the fan base, unless it is name calling. Stomp another player in the head like Albert Haynesworth did in' [...]
I had missed this story until my Dad passed it along... I think it garners your attention... so in case you missed it too:
Jamie Gadiel was 23 years old when he died in the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.
The handsome young man with the brownish hair worked [...]
Posted by guest blogger Fr. D.
Trinity 22
Philippians 1:3–11
St. Matthew 18:21–35
+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
We continue this morning regarding the matter of the development of the Christian life, with personal sanctification, holiness. You will recall that this is the [...]
Jose Louis Merino Mendez is his name. We call him Cheguy. He's my Uncle's son on my mother's side. He's a Spanish citizen looking for medical help, help he's apparently unable to find in his home country.
In our hope of finding him help, I'm publishing what we've' [...]
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
As we approach Veteran's Day this week, I hope that we all will remember what these men and women have sacrificed for us. And take a moment to reflect on what some folks like those in Bangor Maine have been doing to let our warriors [...]
Regular readers will know that I frequently, some might believe too frequently, link to Mike at Waving or Drowning as someone who most consistently exemplifies for me that liberal mindset, particularly that religious leftist mindset, I find to be so hypocritical and wrong-headed.
Before I do so again, let's' [...]
By way of Don Surber:
Politburo passes health plan, 220-215Without bothering to get any input from Republicans;
Too ashamed to read the bill out loud in public;
Breaking an oath to write the bill on C-Span;
Breaking a pledge to have bipartisan support;
Breaking a promise to post it online for 72 hours before [...]
Hey, this ought to make apologies a little easier:
Click on the image for a bigger version.
I know some folks who could use something like this.
H/T to Route 5:9 via Ponder This.
Posted by guest blogger Mommynator.
Life just sometimes flies by, doesn't it? My last post was supposed to deal with some of the ethical issues of modern medical technology and then school started, and a few family doings and . . . squirrel!!!! (Make sure you see the movie coming out' [...]
This is pretty damning for those who continue to brush aside the Fort Hood shooter's Islamofascism:
Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the [...]
Anyone?
It would be an undertaking I can imagine, but if someone is willing to splice together 10 minutes of Obama praising the United States of America as he does here with Islamic culture, I'd post it... and revel in it.
I'm sure some Obamanaut can answer the call.
[...]A brutally honest moment, if there ever was one, from an abortionist, a late-term abortionist:
Somewhere in the Constitution are words that allow this man to kill tiny babies... for profit no less...
Somewhere.
H/T to The Deacon's Bench.
Crossposted(*).
[...]Those who seriously follow journalism today, or what passes for it, will not be surprised by what follows but it's something that needs to be discussed and passed on nevertheless.
Despite reports of Major Nidal Malik Hasan's Muslim devoutness, videos of him in traditional martyr's garb the morning of the shooting, eyewitness [...]
I understand protests are under way and the Obama Administration is looking for ways to soothe ruffled feathers.
Pilgrim has relevant details:
In the highest tradition of police work, she ran toward the gunfire:
The hero cop who ended the bloody rampage at Fort Hood had been directing traffic moments before she [...]
Watch this... and see if it has the same effect on you as it did me... when he finally broaches the subject of the Fort Hood shootings, note how he turns it into talking about himself... this is beyond sickening:
Clarice Feldman at American Thinker speaks for me:
... his expression [...]
And in related news, Army Major Malik Nadal Hasan is the Fort Hood shooter, terrorism is not suspected:
The gunman at the heart of the Fort Hood tragedy has been identified. He is Major Malik Nadal Hasan, aged 39 or 40, according to the report.
Details about Major Malik Nadal Hasan [...]
Guest posted by tim aka The Godless Heathen.
The case of the flying imams who were removed in November 2006 from a USAirways flight in Minneapolis for questioning by law enforcement authorities concluded in the Minnesota federal district court before Judge Ann Montgomery. The parties arrived at a [...]
Posted by guest blogger, BroKen.
From a Church Bulletin: “Women’s Group Rummage Sale: The ladies have cast off clothing of all kinds. They may be seen in the church basement this Friday.”Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life - not end it.
Unfortunately, Speaker Pelosi’s 2,032-page government takeover of health care does just that. On line [...]
Obama Administration condemns bear's unilateral action:
A bear killed two militants after discovering them in its den in Indian-administered Kashmir, police say.
Two other militants escaped, one of them badly wounded, after the attack in Kulgam district, south of Srinagar.
The militants had assault rifles but were taken by surprise [...]
The drive-through window at my local Burgerteria sends me into a minor panic. There are a dozen choices, every one mouth-watering delicious. I'm starving. I need food, but I want the right kind of food. Something memorable. Something to delight my palate without emptying my wallet. Something juicy,' [...]
You know it well if you're familiar with the left:
I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud.
Unfortunately, the story was critical. It said, "Critics have leaped on Mr. Stossel's speaking engagements as the latest evidence of conservative bias'" [...]
While the focus is on yesterday's elections and the ensuing fallout, I thought this piece to be interesting... it appears that Mrs. Clinton is doing a two-step with her Arab "friends":
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on' [...]
Republicans celebrated a clean sweep of Virginia's top elected offices Tuesday night as returns trickled in slowly from a close New Jersey's governor's race and a special House election in upstate New York.
As the GOP sought to send a warning shot to Democrats in Washington by scoring big [...]
Mike, our go to Religious Leftist, posts on the importance of community:
Each community needs to be in contact with others. They stimulate and encourage, give support, call forth and affirm each other…. A community that isolates itself will wither and die; a community in communion with others will receive [...]I'm just wondering:
Producer Barrie Osborne cast Keanu Reeves as the messiah in The Matrix and helped defeat the dark lord Sauron in his record-breaking Lord of the Rings trilogy. Now the Oscar-winning American film-maker is set to embark on his most perilous quest to date: making a big-screen biopic' [...]
We've heard the Obama Administration time and again speak against those who make millions, especially against those who do so by reaping the benefits of government policy lobbied for.
I wonder why they're ignoring Al Gore?
Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small [...]
Methinks you should ponder this wisdom first from the Rev. Know It All:
The average American wedding costs almost $29,000, according to “The Wedding Report”, a market research publication. $29,000!” Oh, by the by, the usual donation to the church is about $200.00. That $200 goes to the church, not [...]
Let there be no mistake... his distancing from Jeremiah Wright during the campaign last year was all a farce, something he had to do to get elected, something the media allowed him to get away with.
The truth of the matter is that Wright's words from this speech given in September of [...]
Newt Gingrich, call your office:
The Republican in a New York House race that has become a symbol of the divisions within the GOP endorsed her former Democratic rival Sunday, a sharp snub to the third-party conservative who forced her out of the race.
Dede Scozzafava, who'd been chosen by local' [...]
Posted by guest blogger Fr. D.
All Saints’ Day
Revelation 7:2–17
St. Matthew 5:1–12
+ In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
We have arrived at the Feast of All Saints’ — an event rather late in the Kalendar. Last night, the preparation for this feast [...]
May not be what you think:
While Catholic moral teaching has always insisted that evil acts may never be chosen, it also holds that the realization of good ends (such as making healthcare more affordable and accessible) mostly falls into the realm of prudential judgment. Outside those principles that translate [...]
Hey, this is hope and change to believe in:
The Palestinian leadership today accused the United States of “back-peddling” on the key issue of Israeli settlement growth in the West Bank after Hillary Clinton, the visiting Secretary of State, suddenly praised Israel’s prime minister for making “unprecedented” concessions on the [...]
By way of his family:
So far, we love it at Walter Reed. Dan gets plenty of sleep at night, wakes up in the morning and heads to the gym for a few hours. Then he eats lunch, and heads back to the gym for an afternoon workout. His sole [...]
The Anchoress gets a mention from none other than Mark Steyn:
I liked the point made by the Anchoress, a writer at the magazine First Things: Putting Muhammad, et al aside, if Larry David had a yen to urinate hither and yon, wouldn't it have been "braver" to have' [...]
Some might more accurately call it taxpayer abuse or even a fraud committed against the American people:
... the White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved because of the $159 billion in stimulus funds allocated as of Sept. 30.
...
The White House argues that the actual job number is actually larger [...]
Posted by guest blogger Locutisprime.
That's right....Barack Obama is too smart for us and Americans are too dumb and under educated for their own good. Which is the only thing that Gore Vidal said in this entire interview that was correct on any level IMO. Americans are stupid. As further [...]
That from this piece at Bloomberg:
Heresy, thy name is Christina Romer.
Last week, the chairman of President Barack Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers -- a position that carried the title “chief economist” until Larry Summers took up residence in the White House -- testified to [...]
This from the AP no less:
The White House is promising that new figures being released Friday will be a more accurate showing of progress in President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan. It aggressively defended an earlier, faulty count that overstated by thousands the jobs created or saved so far.
Ed [...]
At least as described by Mike, our headlining Religious Progressive, while writing about a recently attended U2 concert:
Last night was the final gig on this leg of the tour, and what can I possibly add that hasn't already been said? I may say more later, and I may not' [...]
Rick aka Mr. Brutally Honest, Mommynator, Locutisprime, Lands’nGrooves, Ken Berggren, Dr. D
